Assessment of Coastal Wind Energy Resource,Two ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the monthly and seasonal variation of the wind resource in term of wind energy potential using the wind speed data collected in the last decade for the meteorological stations at two coastal locations situated in Algerian East. After the study of temporal Weibull parameters, we proceeded to give a correlation between the air temperature and the wind speed. The vertical extrapolation of Weibull parameters and mean wind speed at a height of 50m was made and the analysis of annual energy efficiency, seasonal and monthly was made for wind energy conversion systems of 600kw rated capacity. The results show that El Kala has the highest wind potential with the annual mean wind speed V=3.7m/s and the annual wind energy production equal to 1.4Gwh/year, while Skikda gives a less potential. The study gives the coastal regions situated in East of Algeria with a little wind potential, where the better wind energy potential is given in coldest months.